‘Pretty much every sentence he writes is a wonder.’ – Times and Sunday Times, Best Fiction Books of 2021 ‘ Filthy Animals underscores what Real Life showed us last year: Taylor is an exciting new talent.’– Literary Review With exquisite empathy, Brandon Taylor shows that though violence hovers at the edge of many encounters, so too does tenderness and love.Ī Publishers Weekly Fiction Book of the Year What connects these stories is the tension between the surface of things and the intensity of our inner worlds. Elsewhere, a little girl runs wild to the consternation of her childminder unspoken frictions among a group of teenagers come to a vicious head on a winter night and a woman dreads a first date only to find that something has cracked open. As he navigates their sexually fraught encounters he is forced to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness – and to consider his return to life. Charles and Sophie’s relationship is difficult to read but Lionel is drawn to them both. Recently discharged from hospital, Lionel meets two dance students at a party. In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, a young man tentatively engages with the world again. The first collection of stories from the author of Real Life, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize and winner of the Foyles Fiction Book Of The Year SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |